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No; 533,782. Patented Feb. 5, 1895.

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CANE JUICE FILTER.

No 533,782. Patented Feb. 5,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT i lusion.

LEON BOYER, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO L. A. NIOAUD, OF SAME PLACE.

CAN E-JUICE FILTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,782, dated February 5, 1895 Application filed March 24, 1894. Serial No. 504,933. (No model.)

To all 1072/0121, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEON BOYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cane-Juice Filters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to an improvement in cane juice filters, and it has for its object to render more eifective the operation of filtering the juices by facilitating the handling and cleaning of the drawers or carriages; by so constructing the carriages as to insure the thorough discharge from one to the other, and obviating the binding of the carriages in the supporting frame; to so construct the supporting frame that it will permit of free inspection and afiord no means for the lodgment of juices or other matter coming from the carriages, and to provide in the frame a section for receiving the carriages while being cleaned so as to lessen the labor and obviate the necessity of lifting or moving the carriages from the frame when it is desirable to clean them.

Other objects and advantages will appear from the following description and claim when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a side view of my improved frame. Fig. 2, is a vertical, cross-sectional view of the samea Fig. 3, is aplan view; and Fig. l, is a perspective view of one of the filtering receptacles or carriages removed from the frame.

Referring by letter to said drawings:-A, indicates an upright frame. This frame is of a suitable height and width and is of a skeleton or open-Work construction, and may be composed of corner posts a, and center posts I), connected at their upper ends with horizontal bars 0. This supporting frame is formed into two vertical sections. One sec tion B, I shall denominate the filtering sec-= tion, and the other one C, the cleaning section. Suitably fixed in horizontal series within this frame and extending through both the filtering and cleaning sections, are beams (Z. In the present illustration, I have shown eight sets of these beams, but it is obvious that more or less might be used. Arranged upon these beams are tracks or rails e, for a purpose which will presently appear, and it will be observed that these beams or timbers are arranged so that they will not project beneath the car above them.

D, indicates the cars or carriages. These carriages have an open bottom covered by a suitable filtering cloth or gauze, and the side and end walls f, and g, converge, as shown. These carriages are mounted upon axles h, carrying wheels 11, which are arranged upon the tracks or rails e, and are designed to be removed from the filtering to the cleaning section of the frame and vice versa. These carriages are so constructed that they may be allowed to swell as is natural in use, without coming in contact with the skeleton or open work frame, so that they will not bind or in any manner impede the operation. By having the walls of the carriage converge, it will be seen that an unobstructed discharge and 7 5 filtration will be permitted from one carriage to another, and by having the frame open, the operator can inspect the contents of the carriages and juices will be prevented from lodging and interfering with the movements of the carriages.

In operation, when itis desired to clean out a carriage, it is simply necessary to run it out of the filtering section upon the track into the cleaning section, and after it has 8 been cleaned, slide it back into the filtering section, thereby facilitating the operation and lessening the labor and exertion of the attendant.

In practice every second carriage should go have its wire cloth or other filtering material of the same mesh or number so that when one car has been removed to be cleaned, a ing converging walls and arranged on said to car with a similar filtering cloth will be in tracks, substantially as specified.

position for use. In testimony whereof I affix my signature Having described my invention, what I in presence of two witnesses. claim is- In a cane juice filter, the combination with LEON an open or skeleton frame, divided into a fil- W'itnesses: tering section and a cleaning section, tracks 0. H. RAEDER, connecting said sections, and carriages hav- K. F. MATTHEWS. 

